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Last year, I wrote an article about mobile internet usage in 2011, after attending a Google Engage event which was heavily focused on mobile marketing. Earlier this week, I attended the latest Westminster eForum event, which was titled The Future of Mobile and shared the same focus on mobile. The half-day conference was all about mobile marketing and featured contributions from a number of excellent speakers, including David Dyson (CEO) of Three UK, Ian Carrington of Google, David Stewart from Ofcom, Jake Berry (an MP), Nicholas Blades of Telefonica O2 and Paul Morris from Vodafone.

Like the Google event, there were lots of great statistics referenced at this event, so I thought I'd write a similar blog post this time around. Here are some of the key statistics from the event:

There are more mobile phones in the UK than people

The number of smartphone searchers doubles every two months

eBay sells something via a mobile phone every two seconds

In 2010, Google became a mobile-first company (this means they develop their sites and tools on mobiles first)

Smartphone sales overtook PC sales last year (two years earlier than expected)

In three years time, tablet sales will be bigger than PC sales

Smartphone sales will continue to grow  will be 3 times the sales of pcs

52% of UK mobile phone users have a smartphone

28% of internet usage is from a mobile phone

19% of search queries in the travel industry are from mobiles (was 11% in 2011)

16% of search queries in retail are from mobiles (was 10% in 2011)

19% of search queries in the entertainment industry are from mobiles (was 10% in 2011)

20% of all YouTube views are from a mobile device

Mothers day 2012  50% of all online sales came from mobile devices

28% of people in the UK have purchased something using their phone

eBay forecasts $8 billion in mobile sales this year (one sale per second)

Average of 4 Ferraris sold on a mobile phone every month

49% of all Paddy Power bets made from mobile devices

40 different NFC compatible handsets available at the moment

Orange have sold 500,000 NFC-compatible phones in France & the UK

40% of mobile searches have local intent

12% of UK population have a tablet

Tablet sales growing 378% year on year

38% of UK tablet owners spend more time on their tablet than watching TV

23% increase in search queries from tablets after Christmas day (due to them being given as presents)

11% increase in mobile searches after Christmas day

53% of people in the UK are dual screening (using phone whilst watching TV for example)

Total of $241 billion in mobile transactions in 2011

There are regular mobile transactions with value over $5,000

Whatsapp is made up of just 20 people

86% of all adults own at least one mobile phone

Most 3g data used by a single user in February 2012 was 573GB

Total international travelling data used for the same month was 350GB

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